Nature has always had more force than education.

England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.

Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?

It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.

To really enjoy pleasures, you must know how to leave them.

History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.